These proposed change(s) are a very troubling quickening of the destruction of Congress’ intent as encompassed in the Highway Safety Act of 1966, when Congress created, and then charged the FHWA with “Roadway Safety” oversight on the nation’s highway infrastructure and traffic control thereon.

PORTLAND, Ore., July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reenacting the failed1974 National Maximum Speed Law is not a solution. The solution is to properlyengineer our roadways to facilitate the optimum flow of traffic, aprescription that would reduce our total vehicular carbon footprint andimprove roadway safety. The future is in educating motorists to drive safelyvia safety campaigns that promote keep right except to pass, yielding,courtesy, and safety practices that are based in fact! Programs that createjobs, reduce our carbon footprint, pollution, and improve the safety andefficiency of our infrastructure. Read More...

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In a time when we struggle as a nation to reign in terrorism and conduct wars in Iraq and Afghanistan maybe we should also focus on threats to our safety here, too. Apathy and kowtowing to special interests by our own USDOT is responsible for more deaths and injures each year than all our enemies combined! Despite its public campaigns that blame everything on driver behavior, an astonishing one in four (10,000 plus) of our highway fatalities now are directly attributable to its own negligence and refusal to implement Congress' safety mandates, and it's only going to get worse!